As far as Presidential candidates go, Rick Santorum is an easy mark to put it mildly. It could be argued that he’s not actually a viable candidate and thus not worth the effort of scrutinizing; but the way I see it, if he’s not smart enough to get out of the race he’s fair game.
Santorum offers no real definitive policy ideas on pesky little things like the budget, the debt, education, jobs – I’m guessing he figures God will deal with all of that stuff. Rick Santorum’s Presidency, as he envisions it, would be to thwart the evil powers that have the country in their grip, and everything else should just fall into place. And he takes on the evil forces everywhere.
Like when all of the other newborns in the hospital nursery were donning those adorable knit caps, Rick Santorum’s baby wore the little foil hat Rick had made instead; a pre-emptive strike against the secret agent nurses who would attempt to begin the process of “indoctrinating” his children.
This guy sees “left-wing conspiracy” in everything, everywhere, because like so many of his ilk, he worships Rush Limbaugh, that four marriages, ex prescription addict, paragon of conservative “truth”. Santorum even gushed in one interview, “I've listened on your show where people said, "You know, you opened, the scales fell from my eyes. It's finally making sense to me. I understand all of these lies I've been told." Uh huh. The scales fell from my eyes? Really?
This guy is like a character out of the TV show Criminal Minds; you envision this locked room in his house that no one in the family is allowed to enter but him, a room with cut out newspaper articles all over the walls and little strings connecting the trail of the grand anti-Christian conspiracy from headline to headline.
There’s religious fervor and then there’s borderline insanity; I’m just sayin’.
Santorum believes “that the government can regulate private consensual sexual acts”, that “the history of the Crusades has been corrupted by “the American left who hates Christendom” and in the case of DADT said he’s, “not too sure that we haven’t indoctrinated the Officer Corps in this country that they can actually see straight to make the right decisions.”
No one in the Republican party is inclined to pull Santorum aside and say, look man, you’re just too damned crazy to be our nominee. They’re content to let him draw attention away from what’s wrong with their other candidates; the perfect foil so to speak, except it doesn’t work. If anything, Santorum serves to highlight the takeover of the Republicans and Tea Party by Evangelical extremists and pseudo Christian Conservatives; people who do more to sully the term Christian than even Satan could dream of.